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Mister Rog:
How long have you got ?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45638646
So life expectancy is static, and in some places decreasing. WTF !!! How long are we supposed to live? I'm not religeous, but somewhere I think the Bible mentions 3 score years and 10 (70). Seems reasonable. I mean is it expected that we will eventually live forever?
And. . . even this has been turned into a political thing, blaming austerity and cuts. What utter crap, something like this changes over many decades.
I advocate Soylent Green :y
BazaJT:
Whilst I'm not in the least religious I've always believed[and still do] that everyone is born with a "time"and regardless of lifestyle/advances in medicine/any other factors when that time arrives it's game over.Live your life enjoy it while it lasts and let everything else take care of itself :y As someone once said "Dream as though you'll live forever,live like you'll die today"
Sir Tigger KC:
Yep there are old codgers out there who have smoked 60 a day all their life and are still hale and hearty in their 90's! :y
And then there are the fitness fanatics who drop dead in their 40's! :-\
Mister Rog:
--- Quote from: Sir Tigger QC on 25 September 2018, 19:04:17 ---Yep there are old codgers out there who have smoked 60 a day all their life and are still hale and hearty in their 90's! :y
And then there are the fitness fanatics who drop dead in their 40's! :-\
--- End quote ---
There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that after skydiving without a parachute while playing Russian Roulette, smoking is the biggest single risk to life. I know so many smokers who kicked it as a direct result of smoking related disease and conditions.
My sister went last year. Lung cancer. Some years ago I tackled her about her smoking. She was adamant that she was not going to give up "her only pleasure in life". She certainly didn't think that way on her death bed bloated with steroids, zapped with painkillers after chemo and radiotherapy, with tubes in every orifice. A truly miserable death. My brother in law, not very much different died this year.
Rant over . . .
STEMO:
It was the booze with my peers in Liverpool. They went into the pub at 16, claimed a bar stool and sat on it till they died.....mostly in their late 50's, early 60's.
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